Homecoming Win for the Varsity Viking-Esses

It was a full team effort on Saturday, facing Mt. Mercy on Homecoming. The score might make it seem as if it was effortless, but the opponents didn’t make it easy. They were scrappy and physical, and though the goals came, they were the products of teamwork.

Mirann Gacioch had two early goals, both from Charlotte Greene, and Greene scored her own from Sophia Jones. Late in the first half Gacioch made a clever pass to Gabby Hall who scored her first of the year. Right before the horn, Jones had her second assist, finding Fallon Griffin for her first of the season.

Greene scored another early in the second half and then found Zaineb Ahmed on a corner, and Zaineb scored her second of the season. Sierra Warren notched her third of the year from Emerson Bacak, and then Griffin closed out the scoring with her second of the game.

“We don’t like these big scores,” said Coach Desautels, “but there are days when despite hard play by one side, everything seems to hit the net by the other. We were on the losing side of one of those contests early in the season, and it’s no fun. Mt. Mercy played hard, not content to sit back and play defensively. It wasn’t like we were controlling the game with touch after touch. We simply were finding each other on crucial plays, and finishing. That doesn’t happen as often as we’d like.”

Nichols returns to face Nardin on Monday.